The good news just keeps rolling in. We had our first quarter parent teacher conference with my son’s team yesterday morning. Another night and day from a year ago. I approached this meeting a little differently. I didn’t feel like I have going to any type of meeting like this, where I needed to brace myself for whatever they had to say. I was optimistic that they would have only good to say. So I sat and listened as his teacher, his OT and ST gave a synopsis of how the year had been progressing so far. Their “Rock Star”, they called him. I have to admit I was sitting there with a very smug smile. Why? Because here it was, the proof from outsiders that I am on the right track. And the OT and his teacher managed to even hand me the exact time frame from when my son started biomedical intervention. The last “2 months” they said was when he really started to take off. If they had written the date down it probably would have coincided with the day my son had his first B12 shot.
The speech therapist went on to say how much more verbal my son is. How they have skipped over the imitation of sounds because he doesn’t really need to do it. He is starting to attempt every word. The occupational therapist remarked on how attentive he is. How is able to sit almost every session and attend and transition from one activity to the next with very little assistance. His teacher said he sits for the duration of circle time. And he tries to sing along and dance with music in the classroom after having hated it the first month. They all had stories which they were eager to share about how affectionate he is and how much he now wants to engage in play with other children. In about 1 ½ months we will amend the IEP with new goals in all domains and have more integration with the classroom next door.
This morning my son was repeating and attempting to repeat back to me to “stand up”, “coat”, “push”, I thought I saw a putty cat, “I did, I did”, tweety bird. What more could I ask for when I heard all these words this morning. My son probably has over 100 words by now. I stopped counting. I can’t keep track. It’s only been two months. Hearing it with my own ears has been remarkable. Now he is showing every else that he is a “Rock Star”.
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